Information
Writer: David Whitaker
Director: Richard Martin (episode 1), Frank Cox (episode 2)
Script Editor: David Whitaker
Producer: Verity Lambert, Mervyn Pinfield (associate producer)
Executive Producer(s): None
Originally Broadcast: 8th – 15th February 1964
Writer: David Whitaker
Director: Richard Martin (episode 1), Frank Cox (episode 2)
Script Editor: David Whitaker
Producer: Verity Lambert, Mervyn Pinfield (associate producer)
Executive Producer(s): None
Originally Broadcast: 8th – 15th February 1964
Episodes: 2
Duration: 25 mins each episode
Production Code: C
Series: 1
Story Number: 3
Enemy: None
Setting: Time Vortex (episode 1), Creation of the Milky Way (episode 2)
Synopsis
A mysterious blast renders the TARDIS crew unconscious. They awake disorientated and soon find that the TARDIS is strangely malfunctioning. As all the systems breakdown, the behaviour of the crew becomes more erratic. Soon the Doctor comes to believe that the school teachers are behind the malfunctions in an attempt to blackmail him into taking them home.
Gradually it becomes clear that the problems are a warning from the TARDIS. It seems that a spring has broken on the Fast Return Switch causing the TARDIS to travel back through time towards the creation of the Milky Way Galaxy. The Doctor corrects the problem and the travellers are able to escape.
Duration: 25 mins each episode
Production Code: C
Series: 1
Story Number: 3
Enemy: None
Setting: Time Vortex (episode 1), Creation of the Milky Way (episode 2)
Synopsis
A mysterious blast renders the TARDIS crew unconscious. They awake disorientated and soon find that the TARDIS is strangely malfunctioning. As all the systems breakdown, the behaviour of the crew becomes more erratic. Soon the Doctor comes to believe that the school teachers are behind the malfunctions in an attempt to blackmail him into taking them home.
Gradually it becomes clear that the problems are a warning from the TARDIS. It seems that a spring has broken on the Fast Return Switch causing the TARDIS to travel back through time towards the creation of the Milky Way Galaxy. The Doctor corrects the problem and the travellers are able to escape.
Cast
William Hartnell - The Doctor
Carole Ann Ford - Susan Foreman
Jacqueline Hill - Barbara Wright
William Russell - Ian Chesterton
Story Notes
- The first story featuring only the Doctor and his companions.
- The only other stories to take place entirely inside the TARDIS are the Children in Need Special and Time Crash.
- This story is also known as Inside the Spaceship, The Brink of Disaster and Beyond the Sun.
- All episodes exist in 16mm telerecordings.
- Both episodes were recovered from the negative film prints discovered at BBC Enterprises in 1978.
- An Arabic print is also held.
- This story was written to make up the number of episodes and meet the shows commitment to the BBC. The show was initially commissioned for 13 episodes. An Unearthly Child (4), The Daleks (7) and therefore an additional 2 episodes were required in case the show should be cancelled at this point.
- Some of the music from this story was released as Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Volume One - The Early Years, 1963 - 1969.
Preceded by: The Daleks - Followed by: Marco Polo
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